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The Python programming language.

2007

django-logging. Looks neat—includes the ability to use Python’s standard logging module to log messages to a footer appended to your site’s HTML output.

# 24th April 2007, 6:50 am / logging, django, python

Turn your Django application in to an OpenID consumer

I’ve just put the finishing touches on the first releasable version of django_openidconsumer, a package that makes it easy to add OpenID consumer support to any Django application.

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modwsgi. Apache module (written in C) for hosting Python WSGI applications, no mod_python required. Includes Django integration instructions. Has anyone tried this out?

# 14th April 2007, 9:48 am / django, apache, wsgi, python

Avoid IE Brokenness When using Vary and Attachments (via) Django middleware that works around a bug in IE where external applications fail to load content that was served with a Vary header.

# 9th April 2007, 9:41 am / django, ie, middleware, http, python

How to Write a Spelling Corrector. Example code in Python, by Peter Norvig.

# 8th April 2007, 9:42 pm / peter-norvig, python, spelling

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released. Includes Iceweasel (Firefox), Icedove (Thunderbird), Iceape (Seamonkey) and Python 2.4.4 as standard.

# 8th April 2007, 6:25 pm / python, mozilla, debian, linux

PyCon Wireless Network. Conference WiFi is generally bad, and getting worse as more people turn up with laptops. Here’s how Sean Reifschneider built a solid network for PyCon 2007 for $2200 in hardware and 70 hours of work.

# 6th April 2007, 10:39 am / wifi, seanreifschneider, pycon, python

Mass Video Conversion Using AWS. How to use S3, SQS, EC2, ffmpeg and some Python to bulk convert videos with Amazon Web Services.

# 3rd April 2007, 11:44 pm / aws, amazon, python, s3, sqs, ec2, ffmpeg

phpsh. An interactive shell for PHP, developed at Facebook and written mostly in Python. Facebook are really pushing their open-source stuff at the moment.

# 3rd April 2007, 9:43 am / php, facebook, python, phpsh

DjangoKit. Early preview release of a tool that lets you package a Django application up as a fully contained OS X application. When Leopard ships with PyObjC this kind of thing will be even easier.

# 29th March 2007, 12:50 am / pyobjc, djangokit, django, python, osx, leopard

PyPy 1.0. The fascinating Python implemented in Python project reaches 1.0, and now includes a JIT compiler. It’s still not recommended for general use though.

# 27th March 2007, 11:48 pm / pypy, python

cmemcache. Python extension for libmemcache which provides more than twice the performance of the pure-Python memcached client. Supported by Django development version.

# 27th March 2007, 1:51 pm / libmemcache, cmemcache, django, memcached, python

The Athena Framework. CERN’s ATLAS particle accelerator experiment is scriptable with Python.

# 26th March 2007, 2:43 pm / python, particlephysics, cern, athena, atlas

Free Software Foundation to switch to Django. “FSF is switching from Zope to Django (both Python powered!) for web application development... Lots of new stuff coming soon, including contributions back to the Django community.”

# 25th March 2007, 7:56 pm / fsf, django, zope, python

Python web development and frameworks in 2007. A fair and detailed look at the current main options for web development with Python.

# 25th March 2007, 5:30 pm / python

TweetyPy. A Python-based CLI client for Twitter, by Stuart Colville

# 24th March 2007, 4:47 pm / stuart-colville, python, twitter, tweetypy

Algorithm Education in Python (via) A paper describing the usage of Python in Algorithm courses at UC Irvine. I found Python invaluable when I was at university and would have loved to see it become part of the official curriculum.

# 19th March 2007, 1:46 pm / python, education

pg8000 v1.02. The pure Python PostgreSQL library now supports DB-API 2.0 (and SSL too). That didn’t take long!

# 13th March 2007, 9:18 pm / postgresql, dbapi, pg8000, python

pg8000 (via) A pure-Python interface to PostgreSQL, using the PostgreSQL network protocol directly. Doesn’t (yet) support DB-API 2.0, but that’s promised in a future release.

# 9th March 2007, 7:35 pm / postgresql, python, pg8000

Hacking del.icio.us with Python. Nat introduces snaflr, a Python script for republishing selected links from a number of del.icio.us users to one communal account.

# 6th March 2007, 11:11 pm / delicious, python, natalie-downe

Five things I hate about Python. By Jacob Kaplan-Moss. I didn’t know you could force eggs to install unzipped with an option in ~/.pydistutils.cfg—that’s always been my least favourite thing about them.

# 4th March 2007, 10:32 pm / eggs, python, jacob-kaplan-moss

pear 0.8. “A libevent/pyevent-based locking session daemon for the web”. Relational databases aren’t particularly well suited to the access characteristics of session data.

# 4th March 2007, 9:19 pm / sessions, libevent, python

Scaling Python for High-Load Web Sites. Slides from a talk at PyCon. Be sure to switch to the notes view (Ø in the bottom right)—a really nice overview of scaling up from a CGIs to load balanced, memcached Python application servers.

# 4th March 2007, 9:14 pm / memcached, python, scaling, pycon

soupselect. My simple extension to BeautifulSoup that allows you to grab elements using CSS selectors; should be useful for parsing microformats.

# 28th February 2007, 1:47 pm / soupselect, beautifulsoup, python, css, microformats

Django snippets. James Bennett’s new site for Django snippets. The source code to the whole site is available.

# 26th February 2007, 10:08 am / django, django-snippets, james-bennett, python

PyCon Day 1: OLPC Has Excited me. Did you know that the OLPC machines have a “show source” button?

# 23rd February 2007, 11:21 pm / olpc, python, pycon

30 second PyPy tutorial. Zyroth on programming.reddit.com shows how to interactively compile a Python function to C using PyPy and benchmark it against the original.

# 18th February 2007, 9:30 pm / python, pypy

Automated Translation of Java to Python. java2python can translate most Java code in to non-idiomatic Python, using ANTLR for the heavy lifting.

# 15th February 2007, 3:50 pm / antlr, java2python, java, python

Say Hello to Elixir for SQLAlchemy. New ActiveRecord style layer over SQLAlchemy; a collaboration that includes the authors of ActiveMapper and TurboEntity.

# 12th February 2007, 10:28 pm / sqlalchemy, python, elixir

soaplib (via) New open-source Python SOAP library, with a pleasantly Pythonic looking API.

# 12th February 2007, 10:26 pm / jonathan-lacour, python, soap, web-services, soaplib